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Introduction

Originally from Germany, I came to the UK as a student and enjoyed it so much that I never went back. I’m loving life in Oxford as a lecturer, researcher, city guide author, Morris dancer, and creative writer. Previously, I have researched Language Learning on Oxford’s Creative Multilingualism programme, taught German language and literature to learners of all ages, and developed research-based language teaching resources. I’m also currently researching digital and non-digital pedagogies in the language classroom. I’m super curious person, and my enthusiasm for learning is only rivalled by my passion for teaching!

Teaching

In my role as Lektorin I teach undergraduates from the Queen’s, St Catherine’s and St John’s College. I prepare students for the Prelims Paper I and the essay part of FHS Paper I, as well as for the oral exams.

Research

My research interests centre on motivation for language learning, digital and non-digital pedagogies, and creativity in the language classroom. My work is interdisciplinary, bringing together the -for me- most exciting aspects of Education, Applied Linguistics, Psychology, and Languages.

Publications

Some of my recent publications include:

  • Krüsemann, H., & Graham, S. (2024). ‘Learning German is like … ’: How learner representations, motivational beliefs, and perceptions of public views relate to motivation for continuing German study. The Language Learning Journal, 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/09571736.2024.2388116
  • Graham, S., Zhang, P., Hofweber, J., Fisher, L., & Krüsemann, H. (2024). Literature and second language vocabulary learning: The role of text type and teaching approach. The Modern Language Journal, 108,  579-600.  https://doi.org/10.1111/modl.12946

Introduction

I went I went to school in Melbourne Australia and studied MPhys at Keble College. I stayed in Oxford afterwards and further pursued a DPhil in Condensed Matter Physics. Currently, I am a post-doctoral researcher in Terahertz Photonics Group within the Physics department.

Teaching

I teach first and third-year undergraduates at Queen’s on a range of topics closely related to my research, including laser physics and semiconductor physics.

Research

I am interested in studying semiconducting materials and their optoelectronic applications, for example as efficient solar energy absorbers in mitigating impacts from the global climate change. My research therefore focusses on the class of materials of metal halide perovskites. I investigate the fabrication technique of vacuum deposition in forming highly homogenous thin films over a large area. I further incorporate these layers into p-n junction-style photovoltaic devices in realising both excellent solar-to-electrical power conversion efficiency and operational stability.  In parallel, I perform a broad range of spectroscopies to probe the photophysical properties of perovskite thin films and devices.

Publications

Please find my full list of publications visiting this link.

Introduction

I studied for my undergraduate degree in Chemistry at Imperial College London and stayed to complete my PhD in the group of Professor Nicholas Long, as part of the Doctoral Training Centre in Smart Medical Imaging. I worked with upconversion nanoparticles, with focus on developing luminescent probes for molecular imaging.

During the course of my PhD, I spent an increasing amount of time teaching in the undergraduate chemistry labs; it was there that I discovered my love for teaching chemistry.

In 2021, I moved to the Chemistry Teaching Laboratory at the University of Oxford. I specialised in teaching practical skills to undergraduate chemists, with a focus on pedagogical approaches to teaching practical chemistry and the design of new undergraduate experiments.

Teaching

I teach inorganic tutorials to first- and second-year students at Queen’s and Jesus and I have previously taught first-year students organic chemistry at Pembroke. I have also supervised chemistry Part II (Master’s) projects aligned with the fields of inorganic chemistry and chemistry education.

Research

My research in the field of Chemistry Education takes a practitioner-based approach, considering the knowledge and skills we want undergraduate students to possess by the end of their studies, and how we design and develop a curriculum which aligns with these goals. I have a particular interest in linking undergraduate learning to cutting-edge research carried out in the university.

Introduction

After attending a French state school, I studied Franco-German studies for my undergrad at La Sorbonne (Paris IV) and the university of Bonn. I did my masters in German and Comparative Literature at the university of Bonn and St Andrews. I am now currently finishing my DPhil in German and French. I have taught at several colleges and for my faculty before coming to Queen’s as a stipendiary lecturer.

Teaching

I teach German prelims in literature (Paper III and IV), first-years German to English translation, and the literature paper on modern German poetry (Paper VIII).

Research

My research deals with women’s writing at the end of the nineteenth century in France, Germany, and Norway. I am interested in how feminist writers were responding to contemporary debates around womanhood, sexuality, and mental health through their fiction.

Introduction

Having attended my local comprehensive school and sixth-form college, I read History and French at St Hilda’s College, Oxford (2013–17), followed by a MSt in French at St Catherine’s College, Oxford (2019) and a PhD in French at Clare College, Cambridge (2019–23). I am pleased to be returning to Oxford in 2024 to take up the position of Stipendiary Lecturer in French at Queen’s.

Teaching

I teach French literature of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries to first- and second- year students of French (Papers III, IV, and VIII), as well as literary translation and critical theory. For Paper VIII (the second-year period paper), I encourage students to read across a range of literary works written in French since the revolutionary upheavals of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. In tutorials, I am particularly interested to explore how contemporary critical concerns (e.g. analyses of coloniality/colonialism, modernity, ecology, and gender) change the ways in which we understand literary history, and what happens to those concerns when they pass through sustained analysis of literary texts and their contexts.

Research

My research investigates how novels published at the centre of the collapsing French empire (c. 1944–1979) deal with the promises and devastations of an advancing modernity. My PhD argued that experiments with the French novel between 1957 and 1966 configured everyday life as a ground of human existence and a resource for ethical enquiry. Through close readings of four novels – Michel Butor’s La Modification (1957), Georges Perec’s Les Choses (1965), Nathalie Sarraute’s Le Planétarium (1959), and Marguerite Duras’s Le Vice-Consul (1966) – I argued for the significance of narrative fiction in the development of a conceptual history of everyday life, and particularly for its capacity to reflect on the conditions of possibility for thinking ethics through everydayness. My postdoctoral project will explore the notion that the postwar period in metropolitan France was marked by an historically unprecedented set of conditions for living well. Through the close reading of literary fiction, I am seeking to recover structures of feeling whose relation to major historico-philosophical concepts – optimism, solidarity, coloniality (e.g.) – challenge the historiographical commonplace according to which France experienced ‘thirty glorious years’ after the war.

Introduction

I went to school in Auckland, New Zealand, and then studied at the University of Cambridge, where I took the degrees of B.A. and M.Phil. in Classics. At present I am a doctoral student at the University of Oxford, writing a commentary on the third book of the Silvae of Statius.

Teaching

I have taught Latin and Greek for the Faculty of Classics and various Oxford colleges, and at Queen’s will teach papers in Latin literature for both Mods and Greats.

Research

I study the literary and textual criticism of Latin poetry of the early Roman empire, with an especial focus on Tibullus and Statius. Some of my published research has also been devoted to problems in the field of ancient metre.

Publications

A list of my publications can be found here

Introduction

I obtained my undergraduate degree in Mathematics from the University of Warsaw in 2019, spending one year at the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics in Bonn. From October 2019 to August 2023, I was a PhD student at the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences under the supervision of Piotr Gwiazda. During my PhD, I spent more than two years at the Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions in Paris, working with Benoit Perthame. Since September 2023, I have been a postdoctoral research associate in the group of Jose A. Carrillo at Oxford.

Teaching

Over the past few years, I have taught both introductory courses (Dynamics, Fluids and Waves, Constructive Mathematics, Special Relativity) and more advanced ones (Functional Analysis, Partial Differential Equations, Hyperbolic Conservation Laws).

Research

I work in the field of partial differential equations, which are commonly used to model a wide range of physical phenomena, such as heat, fluid dynamics, and quantum mechanics. My current focus is on singular limits, rigorously proving that one equation can be derived from another. I also work with equations arising in data science and machine learning, aiming to enhance the understanding and effectiveness of widely used methods in these areas.

Publications

Introduction

I completed my undergraduate degree in Pharmacology at Newcastle University where I remained to complete a PhD in neuroscience. I then took a position as a postdoctoral researcher at the MRC Cognitive Brain Science Unit in Cambridge before moving to University of Oxford in 2018. I was appointed as Stipendiary Lecturer in Neurophysiology at Queens College in 2023.

Teaching

I teach the “‘Introduction to Psychology’ Prelim course to Queen’s Experimental Psychology (EP) students.

Research

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Brain & Behaviour Research Group, where I conduct research into the cortical networks supporting perception, memory, and decision making. My current research is focussed on understanding communication between areas of the temporal and prefrontal cortex during sensory processing, and aims to understand how these areas communicate to process incoming information and to shape decisions and choices.

My research involves the use of several techniques in combination to link neuronal activity with behaviour. This includes developing behavioural testing paradigms as well as the analysis of a range of neuronal data. I frequently combine both neuroimaging (fMRI), and electrophysiology data to find neural activity associated with sensory features or outcomes, and to quantify how this information is communicated between areas of the brain.

Introduction

I am a postdoctoral research associate and member of the Oxford Centre for Nonlinear PDEs at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford. In 2023, I finished my PhD studies at the Technical University of Vienna (Austria) where I also studied Technical Mathematics as an undergraduate.

Teaching

During my PhD studies, I was responsible for the teaching of exercise classes in Partial Differential Equations, Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Calculus of Variations and Mathematics for Electrical Engineers.

Research

My research combines techniques of stochastic analysis and partial differential equations and focuses on so-called large interacting particle systems and their limiting behaviour as the number of particles becomes arbitrarily large. In many cases, we can identify the limiting structures as solutions to certain partial differential equations. These types of particle limits — so-called mean-field limits — not only connect two important fields of mathematics (analysis and stochastics) in elegant way, but they have also become an emerging tool in applied mathematics with applications ranging from thermodynamics and neuroscience to artificial intelligence.

Publications

Please visit my Google Scholar profile for a complete list of my publications

Introduction

I was born and raised in Guadalajara, Mexico where I earned my bachelor’s degree at the Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESO). Subsequently, I went on to pursue two master’s degrees in the Netherlands, including a Research MSc in Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. More recently, I completed my DPhil at the University of Oxford in the Oxford Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence. I am currently a post-doctoral researcher in the Brain & Behaviour Research Group led by Prof. Mark Buckley in the University of Oxford and a Stipendiary Lecturer in Queen’s college.

Teaching

I teach part of the first year ‘Introduction to Psychology’ course to Queen’s Experimental Psychology (EP), Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics (PPL), and Biomedical Science (BMS) students, particularly the Psychobiology and Cognition modules. I also provide tutorials to 2nd year students for their course in ‘Behavioural Neuroscience’. For final year students I provide a couple of lectures and tutorials for the Advanced Option entitled ‘Systems Neuroscience’. Additionally, I give a lecture on Learning and Memory for MSc in Neuroscience students for their A1 module.

Research

I am currently a post-doctoral researcher in the Brain & Behaviour Research Group where I investigate the neural activity that underlies and supports complex cognitive and neuropsychological processes like learning, memory and cognition.

Publications

A list of my publications can be found here

Introduction

I grew up in Essex where I attended by local comprehensive until the age of 16 (Mayflower High School, Billericay) and completed by A-Levels at a country grammar (King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford). I went on the study preclinical medicine at Downing College, Cambridge, followed by clinical medicine at New College, Oxford. Since then, I have largely stayed in the area and currently work as a Haematology Registrar across the Thames Valley Region.

Teaching

I help to teach the clinical medicine course at Queen’s by providing tutorials to students in their 4th-6th year.

Introduction

I am a historian of early modern Europe at the University of Oxford currently finishing my DPhil. Before embarking on doctoral research, I completed an MSt in Early Modern History at Oxford and my undergraduate studies at the University of Bristol.

Teaching

I teach undergraduate students British and European History 1500-1700, historiography and historical methods, and the history of political thought. I also teach master’s students on the strands for Intellectual History and Early Modern History.

Research

My research focuses primarily on the cultural and intellectual history of sixteenth and seventeenth century France. I explore the ways in which people understood the idea of ‘judgement’ and how this shaped different forms of writing in the early modern period such as natural philosophy, history, poetry and essays. More broadly, I am interested in how new ways of describing thought emerged in the context of the intellectual transformation of the Renaissance and the religious upheaval of the Reformation.

Introduction

Dr Hankinson studied English at Balliol College, completing his DPhil in 2020 under the supervision of Professor Matthew Reynolds. He has since taught at St Hilda’s College, St Anne’s College, and Jesus College, and worked as the Co-ordinator of the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Research Centre (OCCT), based at St Anne’s, where he currently leads a research strand on Comparative African Literatures.

Teaching

To Queen’s English undergraduates I teach both Prelims Paper 3, on nineteenth-century texts and contexts, and Prelims Paper 1b, an introductory paper on literary theory.

Research

Dr Hankinson’s research explores the relations between nationalism, belonging, foreignness, and style, with a particular focus on the period 1860-present. His work routinely involves the tracing of relations which proliferate beyond temporal and geographical boundaries, and the development of innovative comparative methodologies—two activities united in a forthcoming monograph which stages an encounter between the Victorian poet Robert Browning and the contemporary Ghanaian poet and novelist Kojo Laing. 

Publications

Please visit: https://www.josephhankinson.com/articles.


Introduction

I grew up in London before coming up to Oxford to read English at Lady Margaret Hall. After graduating, I moved to Jesus College, Oxford for my Masters in medieval literature and subsequently for my DPhil. I have taught medieval English language and literature, and the English language, at a variety of Oxford colleges since 2008. Most recently, I have been working as a researcher on the EU-funded project CLASP: A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry located at the English Faculty here in Oxford. 

Teaching

I teach medieval language and literature, covering the period from the earliest written records of English in the seventh century until the reign of Henry VIII in the mid-sixteenth century. My teaching focuses, however, particularly upon the early medieval period. I also teach the history and development of the English language.

Research

My research focuses on Old English literature (roughly anything written in English before the twelfth century). I have particular interests in vernacular poetics, cultural constructions of space and place, and architectural metaphor. I am also peculiarly interested in the conceptualization of prisons in early medieval prose and verse, which is the focus of the book on which I’m currently working.

Publications

  • ‘The Gates of Hell: Invasion and Damnation in an Anonymous Old English Easter Vigil Homily’, in Leeds Studies in English: Special Issue – Architectural Representation in Early Medieval England (forthcoming).
  • ‘Landes to fela: Geography, Topography and Place in The Battle of Maldon’, in English Studies 98:8 (2017), 781–801.
  • ‘Associative Memory and the Composition of Ælfric’s Dominica in Quinquagessima (Catholic Homilies I 10)’, Notes & Queries 64:1 (2017), 5–10.
  • ‘Rewriting Gregory the Great: the Prison Analogy in Napier Homily I’, Review of English Studies 68 (2017), 203–23.
  • ‘Incarceration as Judicial Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England’, in eds. Jay Paul Gates and Nicole Marafioti, Capital and Corporal Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2014), 92–112.
  • ‘Literal and Spiritual Depths: re-thinking the ‘drygne seað’ of Elene’, Quaestio Insularis 10 (2009), 27–44.

Research

I am interested in control over the interaction between light and matter at the quantum level. I also study materials and devices for quantum optics and optoelectronics, primarily involving defects in diamond and semiconductor quantum dots, as well as applications in quantum communications and computing. Other areas of research include optical microsystems for quantum optics, chemical sensing and spectroscopy.

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